Egg viability of the rotifer brachionus urceolaris after ingestion by the predatory cladoceran leptodora kindtii

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 665, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 263-266

  Nagata, Takamaru ^a   Sakamoto, Masaki ^b,c   Tanaka, Yoshinari ^b   Hanazato, Takayuki ^a  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^c TOYAMA PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Leptodora; Parthenogenetic egg; Prey predator interaction; Resistance against digestion; Rotifer; Size dependence

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CRUSTACEAN; DIGESTION; EGG; INGESTION RATE; PARTHENOGENESIS; POPULATION DECLINE; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SIZE STRUCTURE; VERTEBRATE; ZOOPLANKTON;

BRACHIONUS URCEOLARIS; INVERTEBRATA; LEPTODORA; LEPTODORA KINDTII; ROTIFERA;

EID: 79955789921     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-011-0613-8     Document Type: Article

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